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* Readers finally get to see Sten and Vendan from the perspective of someone other than Connie or Steven himself. Vendan is a [[UncannyValley blank, eerie ghost of a Gem]] and Sten is more [[AmbiguouslyHuman "humanoid" than "human"]].

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* Readers finally get to see Sten and Vendan from the perspective of someone other than Connie or Steven himself. Vendan is a [[UncannyValley blank, eerie ghost of a Gem]] Gem and Sten is more [[AmbiguouslyHuman "humanoid" than "human"]].
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* Bruce Banner is ''not'' having a good time after being Hulked out for a week straight post-[[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Harlem fight]]. He spends a whole other week stranded in the wilderness, with his physical and mental condition deteriorating. After the second day, he starts seeing ghosts. Though the author notes that the Bruce/Hulk of the comics could canonically see ghosts and astral forms, his feverish mental state and poor health [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness calls the narrative into question]].

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* Bruce Banner is ''not'' having a good time after being Hulked out for a week straight post-[[Film/TheIncredibleHulk post-[[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 Harlem fight]]. He spends a whole other week stranded in the wilderness, with his physical and mental condition deteriorating. After the second day, he starts seeing ghosts. Though the author notes that the Bruce/Hulk of the comics could canonically see ghosts and astral forms, his feverish mental state and poor health [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness calls the narrative into question]].
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* Bruce Banner is ''not'' having a good time after being Hulked out for a week straight post-Harlem fight. He spends a whole other week stranded in the wilderness, with his physical and mental condition deteriorating. After the second day, he starts seeing ghosts. Though the author notes that the Bruce/Hulk of the comics could canonically see ghosts and astral forms, his feverish mental state and poor health [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness calls the narrative into question]].

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* Bruce Banner is ''not'' having a good time after being Hulked out for a week straight post-Harlem fight.post-[[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Harlem fight]]. He spends a whole other week stranded in the wilderness, with his physical and mental condition deteriorating. After the second day, he starts seeing ghosts. Though the author notes that the Bruce/Hulk of the comics could canonically see ghosts and astral forms, his feverish mental state and poor health [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness calls the narrative into question]].
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* Bruce Banner is ''not'' having a good time after being Hulked out for a week straight post-Harlem fight. [[RealityEnsues He spends a whole other week stranded in the wilderness]], with his physical and mental condition deteriorating. After the second day, he starts seeing ghosts. Though the author notes that the Bruce/Hulk of the comics could canonically see ghosts and astral forms, his feverish mental state and poor health [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness calls the narrative into question]].

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* Bruce Banner is ''not'' having a good time after being Hulked out for a week straight post-Harlem fight. [[RealityEnsues He spends a whole other week stranded in the wilderness]], wilderness, with his physical and mental condition deteriorating. After the second day, he starts seeing ghosts. Though the author notes that the Bruce/Hulk of the comics could canonically see ghosts and astral forms, his feverish mental state and poor health [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness calls the narrative into question]].
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** Chapter 10- ''I Can't Breathe'', which is implied to be the viewpoint of ''Jasper's shattered fragments''. The narration slowly gets more disjointed, switching between third and first person, and then starts to repeat itself like a broken record, culminating in a MadnessMantra that bleeds into the [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the author's notes and even the chapter title itself.]]

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** Chapter 10- ''I Can't Breathe'', which is implied to be the viewpoint of ''Jasper's shattered fragments''. The narration slowly gets more disjointed, switching between third and first person, and then starts to repeat itself like a broken record, culminating in a MadnessMantra that bleeds into the [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the author's notes and even the chapter title itself.]]
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* Steven accidentally fuses with Jasper. While Carnelian herself is rather... ''jarring'' on her own, perhaps the creepiest part of the chapter is one throwaway line. Carnelian had apparently awoken more of Pink's memories in Steven, and when they unfuse, Steven starts deliriously rambling about [[StarKilling eating a star]]… [[TimeAbyss four billion years ago]].


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* Connie starts having mild separation anxiety over a recently acquired pet goldfish, starting to imagine all the horrible things that could happen to it while she's not home. But then the scenarios start getting more specific, and it becomes clear that she's not talking about a goldfish anymore- [[WhamLine she's talking about]] ''[[WhamLine Steven]]''.

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* Bruce Banner is ''not'' having a good time after being Hulked out for a week straight post-Harlem fight. [[RealityEnsues He spends a whole other week stranded in the wilderness]], with his physical and mental condition deteriorating. After the second day, he starts seeing ghosts. Though the author notes that the Bruce/Hulk of the comics could canonically see ghosts and astral forms, his feverish mental state and poor health [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness calls the narrative into question]].

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[[folder: ''Three Can Keep A Secret, If Two Of Them Are Dead'']]

* Bismuth, back in the war, had invented a process that could kill a Gem. Not [[FateWorseThanDeath shatter]]- ''[[ImmortalBreaker kill]]''.

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[[folder: ''Like Halley's Comet'']]

* Essentially ''all of time'' has become ButForMeItWasTuesday for Steven. In his own words, "a day is a decade is a century".
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* Steven having FertileBlood that grows healing flowers is kind of cool, but it still highlights how much of a HumanoidAbomination he actually is under the surface.
* Chapters 7-9, which take place during the SU:F episode ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E16Fragments Fragments]]''. Readers get to watch in slow motion Jasper's deliberate efforts to groom Steven into being her idea of the Diamond he should have been all along, [[DramaticIrony knowing full well what happens to her as a result]].
** Chapter 10- ''I Can't Breathe'', which is implied to be the viewpoint of ''Jasper's shattered fragments''. The narration slowly gets more disjointed, switching between third and first person, and then starts to repeat itself like a broken record, culminating in a MadnessMantra that bleeds into the [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the author's notes and even the chapter title itself.]]

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[[folder: ''Diamond Drop'']]

* The events of ''Thor'', from the outside perspective of the Gem empire, looked a lot like an Asgardian declaration of war. As readers pointed out, Asgard is ''extremely'' lucky that Steven was willing to investigate further and try to resolve things peacefully.
* "Asteria Diamond", aka Steven, is very unsettling in-universe from an outsider's perspective. The narrative never allows the reader to forget that as much of a NiceGuy he is, he's still a literal alien GodEmperor and the face of an immortal, intergalactic empire.
* Steven's flagship, the ''Tāmarai'', which looks like a giant eldritch SpaceWhale.
* The slowly building implication that Odin abused ''all'' of his children, just in different ways.
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* [[StarfishLanguage Gemsong]], the true language of Gems, having the capacity to be a BrownNote to organic life.
* Steven's body slows down so much when he sleeps he becomes practically indistinguishable from a ''corpse''.
* Steven has Rose's memories. ''All of them.'' [[TheFogOfAges Going back for eons]]. And sometimes can't tell that the memories aren't his.
** This aged him mentally by ''[[TimeAbyss millions of years]]''.
* Steven has claws. Pretty neat, right? [[HumanoidAbomination He has at least twenty more bones than the baseline human in order to accommodate them]].

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[[folder: ''Beware, Therefore, The Gemini.'']]

* It's implied that Steven had a PTSD-related episode the previous night, which caused him to mentally split apart into Sten and Vendan. Vendan is left [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness an absolute wreck]], piloting Steven's body is a near-delirious attempt at a HeroicSafeMode while trying to find his "brother", with Sten trapped in their mind [[AndIMustScream in an equally desperate attempt to find Vendan, unable to see, hear, or move]].
* Greg sees his son- feverish, disheveled, barely coherent- and asks Steven what's wrong. His "son's" response?
-->''Vendan'': '''[[InternalReveal I'm]] [[WhamLine not]] [[ParanoiaFuel Steven]]'''.

* Readers finally get to see Sten and Vendan from the perspective of someone other than Connie or Steven himself. Vendan is a [[UncannyValley blank, eerie ghost of a Gem]] and Sten is more [[AmbiguouslyHuman "humanoid" than "human"]].
* '''[[CreepyMonotone Pink Diamond does not exist. Rose Quartz does not exist.]]''' '''''[[CreepyMonotone She]]''''' '''[[CreepyMonotone does not exist.]]'''
* Vendan bluntly stating that being unfused is little more than shattered.
* Steven [[DissonantSerenity flatly recalling how White Diamond tore out his Gem]].

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